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Articles

Chrono Trigger celebrates its 20 year anniversary today. The combat, the story, the music, and the characters all feel fresh and interesting even after all this time, and a few of the editors here at Game Informer got together to explain why. Chrono Trigger is full of memorable moments, each one entirely distinct from one another in ways that you simply didn’t see in competing RPGs of the time, and still don’t see today. The time travel story creates many opportunities for interesting plot developments, but even outside of awesome things like fighting dinosaurs and racing cyborg motorcycles were surprise revelations that would have been amazing even in games that... The moment Chrono Trigger really and truly grabbed me, was in the court sequence. All of these interesting diversions from the festival introduction of the game suddenly became defining characteristics of your morality. It was as if the game tricked you into believing you were just having a good time. Another of my favorite moments, was leaving Robo behind for 300 hundred years to reinvigorate the forest that had turned into desert.

Homosexuals only account for 2-3 percent of the population, yet because of a sympathetic press, they have dominated coverage of the marriage debate in a fashion unseen in modern history. With the deck so disproportionately stacked against supporters of traditional marriage, it’s important for political leaders – particularly those running for president – to help make our voices heard. But if social conservatives were holding their breath waiting for GOP 2016 hopefuls Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio to exhibit leadership on this important issue, they would have suffocated by now. Bush and Rubio could not be bothered to expand upon their marriage views further than to suggest they disagreed with the court’s decision, and that we should respect others and abide by the ruling. The Washington Post called Bush and Rubio’s approach a laissez faire attitude. Laissez faire does not play well in Peoria or Pella, Iowa or Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In fact, pandering to the Washington establishment or the donor class has never played well with GOP primary voters. We almost expected as much from Bush, whose name is almost always accompanied by the ‘moderate’ modifier.

An atomic clock that sets the time by the teensy oscillations of strontium atoms has gotten so precise and stable that it will neither gain nor lose a second for the next 15 billion years. The strontium clock , which is about three times as precise as the previous record holder, now has the power to reveal tiny shifts in time predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity, which states that time ticks faster at different elevations on... "Our performance means that we can measure the gravitational shift when you raise the clock just 2 centimeters [0. 79 inches] on the Earth's surface," study co-author Jun Ye, a physicist at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of... Atomic clocks typically work by measuring the vibrational frequency of atoms, such as strontium or cesium, as the atoms jump between different energy levels. Currently, a cesium clock at NIST defines the second, where 1 second is 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the cesium atom. In the new clock, thousands of strontium atoms at extremely cold temperatures are essentially pinned into a narrow column by intense laser light. To measure time, the clock hits those atoms with just the right frequency of red laser light to make the atoms jump energy levels.

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